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Overview
This is the most complete and practical guide to building breakthrough applications for the Windows Store that run on Windows 8. Microsoft "MVP of the Year” Jeremy Likness helps you combine your existing developer skills with new Visual Studio 2012 tools and best practices to create apps that are intuitive and innovative. His guidance and insight will help you dive into Windows 8 development—and gain a powerful competitive advantage for years to come.
Likness illuminates the entire apps lifecycle, from planning and MVVM-based design through coding, testing, packaging, and deployment. He covers both business and consumer apps, showing exactly how Windows 8/WinRT development builds upon and contrasts with older WPF and Silverlight approaches.
Using carefully crafted downloadable code examples and sample projects, Likness shows how to make the most of new platform features, including integrated social networking, search, contracts, charms, and tiles. Throughout, he addresses crucial development challenges that have only been discussed on MSDN, blog posts, and Twitter feeds—and never with this depth and clarity before.
Coverage includes
• Mastering real-world Windows 8 development for all devices and form factors
• Understanding the new WinRT framework and the unique characteristics of Windows 8 apps
• Designing apps that are faster, more responsive, do more with less, and maximize battery life
• Creating exceptionally fluid interfaces with VS 2012 templates, built-in animations, and XAML
• Building apps that respond consistently to multiple forms of input, including complex touch manipulations
• Using contracts and charms to expose services or enable users to do so
• Providing information to users through Live Tiles even when your app isn't running
• Connecting your app seamlessly to multiple data sources, including social networks and cloud storage
• Syndicating rich, network-based content
• Using Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
• Securing Windows 8 apps through authentication and authorization
• Efficiently testing, debugging, packaging, and deploying apps
• Designing Windows 8 apps to target multiple devices and form factors
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Table of Contents
Foreword
1 The New Windows Runtime
2 Getting Started
3 Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
4 Metro Applications
5 Application Lifecycle
6 Data
7 Tiles and Toasts
8 Giving Your Application Charm
9 MVVM and Testing
10 Packaging and Deploying
Index